Tapped

Tapped shows the hidden affects of the bottled water industry by documenting the impacts to the environment from plastic bottles, pollution from production, right down to the impact on the communities, land and people from which the water is taken …Watch now on thoughtmay ...

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Taboo: Nudity

From bare-naked witches in Australia to the Festival of the Naked Man in Japan, Taboo examines the cultural significance of nudity.&nb ...

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Glamour’s Golden Age: Beautiful and Damned

The story of 1920s London's Bright Young People is a tale of sex, drink, drugs and a gossip-hungry press: Beautiful and Damned traces the growth of 1920s London's bright young party set whose antics were enjoyed and scorned in equal measures by a watching nation. And the more artistic of the merry band - Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford among them - saw their work make the characters and attitudes of the era both legend and fable.Contributors ...

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Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Baichwal's cameras follow Edward Burtynsky (1955- ) as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling. In China, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors. A woman assembles a circuit breaker, and women and children ...

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Tears of Gaza

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience.Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children.Can war solve conflicts or create peace? ...

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Jivin' in Be-Bop

Jivin' in Be-Bop is a 1947 musical film. It was produced by William D. Alexander and stars Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, which included notable musicians such as bassist Ray Brown, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, and pianist John Lewis. The film also features singers Helen Humes and Kenny "Pancho" Hagood, Master of Ceremonies Freddie Carter, and a group of dancers. The film consists of a plotless revue presented in a theatrical setting, offering ...

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Salem Witch Hunt

Fear is the quicksand of humanity. In 1692, mass hysteria led to the hanging of nineteen innocent people in Salem. Join historians as they piece together what really happened. . ...

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The Tuskegee Experiment

Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234)The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, carried out in Macon, Alabama, from 1932 to 1972, is a notorious episode in the checkered history of medical experimentation. In one of the most economically disadvantaged parts of the U.S., researchers deceived a group of 399 black male syphilitics into participating in a study with no therapeutic value. These "volunteers" were not treated as patients, but rather as ...

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Tim Marlow's Great Artists

A major 14 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the ...

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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Paints an informal portrait of the legendary Montreal poet, novelist and songwriter both onstage and off. Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 1965 documentary about Leonard Cohen, co-directed by Don Owen and Donald Brittain, and written by Brittain. Produced by John Kemeny for the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Genie Award in the TV-Information category.  The original idea for the film had involved documenting ...

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Gasland

America’s largest domestic natural gas drilling boom is in full swing and Halliburton corporation (Dick Cheney’s oilfield services corporation) claims it has refined a technique called ‘hydraulic fracturing’ that extracts natural gas in a “safe and environmentally friendly way”.But upon examination, film-maker Josh Fox uncovers a trail of secrets, lies and first-hand evidence of intense water contamination and devastating environmental destruction Watch ...

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Angel on My Shoulder

Angel on My Shoulder is a 1946 American fantasy film about a deal between the Devil and a dead man.Paul Muni gives another classic performance in this wonderful fantasy as a notorious gangster who is murdered by a double-crossing partner. While in Hell, he makes a deal with the Devil, played with relish by Claude Rains, to return to earth... only to double-cross him in the end. Watch below courtesy of The Internet Archive, or view via Google ...

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As You Like It

In As You Like It a duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother to contend with, so he joins those in the forest. Rosalind, now banished, disguises herself as a young man, with Celia as her servant, and follows Orlando into the forest. There, ...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

BBC Television's live production of George Orwell's "1984". Produced in 1954. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. I've seen the 1956 and 1984 versions online, and I must say this is the best version available, both in terms of watch-ability and faithfulness to the text.Peter Cushing is brilliant in his live interpretation, bringing Winston Smith to life as a character we can be afraid for and, sometimes, afraid of.Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes ...

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Christmas Unwrapped: The History Of Christmas

This documentary originally appeared on the history channel back in 1997 and has been repeated every year. It has become a holiday favorite of mine even though I've seen it numerous times. It's narrated by "Early Show" host Harry Smith and traces the roots of Christmas back to its earliest beginnings as a pagan Roman holiday of feasting.We then see Christmas virtually outlawed by the Puritans but never forgotten. The holiday would enjoy a rebirth ...

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The Legends of Santa

Santa's image is almost universally recognizable as one of Christianity's most enduring and popular legends, yet the seemingly timeless jolly old man with his bag of toys, steering his reindeer and sliding down chimneys, is a relatively modern image. "The Legends of Santa" shows how today's image of Father Christmas is a culmination of centuries of history and legend.&nb ...

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The Worst Christmas Jobs in History

Tony Robinson takes a slide down the festive career ladder to investigate The Worst Christmas Jobs in History.From trudging through waist-deep snow and performing as the back end of a pantomime cow to squelching through mounds of turkey giblets, being deafened by explosions, reeling from the taste of numble pie (deer entrails) and burning the hair off boars' heads, Tony traces an alternative history of ChristmasAnd he answers some of the Christmas ...

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of folks in nearby Whoville having a happy time celebrating Christmas. With his dog made to look like a reindeer and disguised as Santa Claus, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. Will it be a sad Christmas this year?Boris Karloff gives voice to the Grinch in this Dr. Seuss classic and you can watch below or on PutLocker, MySpace or SockShare.  Vezi mai multe ...

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It's a Wonderful Life

Ever wonder, in the midst of troubles, what the world would be like without you? So did George Bailey in Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life.George has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, ...

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween.One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween - but alas, they can't get it quite right.Watch The Nightmare Before Christmas on PutLocker, SockShare, MegaVideo or below on ...

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Scrooge

In the Victorian England, the stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge does not care to Christmas and runs his business exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit and clients. In the Christmas Eve, he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley that tells him that three spirits would visit him that night.The first one, the spirit of past Christmas, recalls his miserable youth when he lost his only love due to his greed; the spirit of the ...

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Cracking the Colour Code

An unprecedented global journey to explore the frontiers of how we view colour, make colour and use the power of colour to communicate meaning. Colour is a fundamental part of our world. Landscapes, animals, fashion, painting, movies, food – everything around us resonates with the language of colour. All our waking lives – and even in our dreams – we navigate our way through a world of colour. Yet, whoever we are, colour has the power to stop us ...

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The Big Sleep

Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family.Marlowe finds that each problem in The Big Sleep centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife.Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes, and Bogie and Bacall have never been better. Watch via VideoBB or MegaVideo one, two or three.   ...

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Carmen of the North

The love tragedy of the young and insecure detective Joz, who, on the verge of getting married to Maryam, is assigned the highprofile case of a murdered prostitute. His relationship is threatened when, as part of the investigation, he meets the alluring Carmen, a beautiful, free-spirited and ambitious young woman. Unable to resist her, he puts his entire future at stake...First time director Jelle Nesna shows us a raw and dark city of Rotterdam in ...

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Golden Door

A family living in poverty leaves behind the world they know in hope of finding new opportunities in this historical drama from director Emanuele Crialese. The Mancusos are a family struggling to make ends meet in a small farming community in Sicily in 1913.Life has long been hard for the Mancuso Family, who have lived in the same village for generations, and one day they are visited by a man who claims to be from the United States. The man ...

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Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice

Matthew Collings reappraises Impressionism by examining the lives and works of Courbet, Manet, Cezanne and Monet.Art aficionados are notoriously sniffy about the Impressionists. The work of Monet and his contemporaries has for so long adorned coasters, calendars, T-shirts and tea towels that it is increasingly hard to see them as serious artists.In Channel 4's Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice, though, the art critic and presenter Matthew Collings ...

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Quills

The infamous writer, The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed ...

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Chocolat

When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism.But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcomed.Watch on Sockshare, PutLocker, VideoWeed or NovaMov below. ...

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Coco Avant Chanel

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both.She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats.When she falls in love with ...

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Goddess Remembered

This documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. This is the first part of a 3-part series that includes The Burning Times and Full Circle. ...

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The Burning Times

The Burning Times takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times. Part two of a series of three films on women and spirituality, ...

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The Fate of America

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.Whose version of this historic event should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction?We also meet Baron Georges Savarin de Marestan and Andrew Wolfe-Burroughs, direct descendants of Montcalm and Wolfe, both of whom died in the battle that would give birth to Canada and to the province of Quebec. ...

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The Champions

In this 3-part documentary series, The Champions, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque.From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinati ...

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Soraida, a Woman of Palestine

This feature-length film introduces viewers to Soraida, a Palestinian woman who lives in Ramallah.In her neighbourhood the women do not all wear veils, the men do not rattle off empty political slogans, the young people do not strap bombs to their belts, and the children play together like kids everywhere.Taking us into the daily existence of Soraida, her family and neighbours, the film compels us to ask fundamental questions about life in the Middle ...

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The Colour of Beauty

A shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry: Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?This film is part of the Work For All series, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. ...

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The World At War

Documentary from 1942 by the U.S. Office of War Information outlining the events that led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the US decision to enter World War ...

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Who Really Discovered America?

Who Really Discovered America? is an interesting documentary to break free of the Christopher Columbus mindset and realize that a lot of others have journeyed to America way before Columbus, opening the door for a new way to look at history.View the longer version he ...

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Who Wrote the Bible?

Same title but two different documentaries on the subject. The History Channel: Who Wrote the Bible? Watch via YouTube playlist oneWatch via YouTube playlist twoBBC: Who Wrote the Bible? with Robert BeckfordWatch via YouTube playlistWatch via Google Vi ...

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A History of God

Based on Karen Armstrong’s acclaimed book, this feature-length film guides viewers along one of humanity’s most elusive quests.  For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world’s monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong’s acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.A History of God examines the familiar images of deity as presented ...

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The History Of Devil

Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan...He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from?The History of the Devil goes back to the ancient Middle East, even before the Old Testament to find the roots of Satan. The answer is in the ancient Mesopotamia. In Zoroastrianism it was believed that the all-knowing good God was Ahura Mazda, the one Uncreated Creator, ...

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The Haunted History Of Halloween

Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition.It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the ...

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Secret History of the Credit Card

As Professor Warren sees it, the industry is operating without fear of penalty. "There's no regulator, and there's no customer who can bring this industry to heel," Warren says. Frontline examines... ...

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The Story of Broke

The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well.But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working.But rather than invest in something better, we continue to keep this ‘dinosaur economy’ on life support with hundreds of billions ...

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